Canadian singer The Weeknd aka Abel Tesfaye has responded to a report from Rolling Stone claiming that his upcoming HBO series ‘The Idol’, created with Euphoria’s Sam Levinson, has gone wildly, disgustingly off the rails.
The superstar however did not deny some of the article’s disturbing claims — like that he and co-creator, Euphoria’s Sam Levinson, are making a series depicting ‘sexual torture porn’ but instead, fired off a video calling the publication uncool.
While sources claimed that some of the content in the story “is pretty accurate,” others paint a different picture of what’s been going on behind-the-scenes.
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On Wednesday afternoon, Tesfaye tweeted a clip from The Idol of his and Lily-Rose Depp’s characters calling RS “irrelevant.” In the series, the singer plays a modern-day cult leader named Tedros while Depp is Jocelyn, his pop star love interest. The clip shows them talking to an agent type (played by Dan Levy) who’s trying to convince Jocelyn to shoot a cover for the magazine.
Titled “‘The Idol’: How HBO’s Next ‘Euphoria’ Became Twisted ‘Torture Porn’” – the investigation by Rolling Stonecites 13 unnamed sources from the production, who describe chaotic set conditions and sex scenes that made them uncomfortable. One source called the production a “s*** show”.
